marry, have a family be a part of a community, a member of church, brother part of a fraternity, a part of a gang or a bowling club. It is also a part of what we look for in a career. The esteem needs. Next we begin to look for a little self-esteem. Maslow noted two versions of esteem needs, a lower one and a higher one. The lower one is the need for the respect of others, the need for status, fame, glory, recognition, attention, reputation, appreciation, dignity, even dominance. The higher form involves the need for self-respect, including such feelings as confidence, competence, achievement, mastery, independence, and freedom. This is the higher form because, unlike the respect of others, once we have self-respect, it is a much harder to lose.The negative version of these needs is low self-esteem and weakness complexes. Maslow felt that Adler was onto something when he stated that these were at the roots of many, even of our psychological difficulties. In modern countries, many of us have what we need in regard to our physiological and safety needs. Sometimes we even have reasonable amount of love and sense of belonging. It is a respect that often seems hard to get!The next four levels Maslow calls deficit needs, or D-needs. If you do not have an adequate amount of something it would make it a deficit .We feel the need, however if we obtain everything we need of, we feel nothing at all. In other terms, they cease to be motivating. He also talks about these levels in terms of homeostasis. Maslow simply extends the homeostatic principle to needs, such as safety, belonging, and esteem that we do not normally think of in these conditions. Maslow sees all these needs essentially for survival. However love and esteem are needed for the maintenance of health. He says we all have these needs built in to us genetically like instincts. In fact, he calls them instinctual which are instinct like needs. In overall development, we go through thes...
